Technophobia? Not Now!

I’m having an “Okay Boomer” moment. I got a new computer. It’s taken me some time to like her. And I have guilt focusing on such a petty thing, when our neighbors in this country don’t have enough to eat. In my head, I hear Bogey’s line in the middle of a war, in Casablanca: “I’m no good at being noble, but it doesn’t take much to see that the problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.” However, as I say, when we write your legacy speech—your TED Talk—I tell you to start where you are right now, so here I am.

My new “sister” is still an HP (I’m not THAT adventurous), but the one I had for over 15 years had no built-in camera or microphone. The new girl in town is a fancy Pavilion, under the link for Pavilion and ENVY collection (the caps are not mine). So even the name is intimidating. The unopened box sat in my dining room for a week.

I realize whenever there are major changes in how we do things, especially when machines are involved, technophobia is likely to occur. In 20 years, we’ve gone from floppy disks to cloud storage; from dial-up phone connections to fiber optic internet. I remind myself: the more we use an item, the more comfortable we become with that item. And the more important the item is to us, the faster we will climb the learning curve. At one point, I was the first one in my family to know how to set the VCR—I was unwilling to miss even one episode of “The Young and the Restless.”

Yes, there’s always humor to keep us going. Here’s our family’s favorite YouTube video: Chris Mann, a contestant on The Voice, parodies the Adele song in the “Hello—Quarantine Version.” Hilarious.

So my new computer is now unboxed, and sat on the dining room table to accommodate my Zoom meetings. After weeks more, she now moved to her permanent place of prominence—on my desk. And I will grow, in time, to love her as I love my iphone. But I don’t care what they say…I plan to use the old keyboard till she dies. Never fear this Boomer: we’ve always worked on your dynamite presentation on a shared screen on GoogleDocs, so that continues.

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